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1. “Your deputy director of the CIA, Mike Morell, told me on the air that it was a certainty that hostile intelligence agencies had access to her server. That means in real time it was compromised. That means they have a book on her that they can read. And I'm sure you had those briefings. You had SDI clearance like I did at the old days at DOJ where they know everything about you. So if I took David Axrod and you gave me five years of all of your electronic communications, not only those that you sent, but those that you received, imagine the leverage I would have on you.”

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2. “Yeah, I call it the server issue. I've never cared about the foundation. I don't give a lick about that because they do good work in Haiti and he traveled with President George W. Bush doing a lot of stuff. And in Africa. Yeah, there may be some shady occasional deals, but I care about the fact that...”

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3. “I offered to integrate one of the Trump children. I sent a note in if you want me to interview one of the Trump children, I'll be happy to do that. But if she picks the admiral, the former ambassador to NATO, I think the election may be lost because he's the most trustworthy, the accidental admiral you probably know him. I just read his book. He's got such integrity and such thoroughgoing charm that her negatives would be offset in a pretty powerful way. If she picks Senator Kane or Governor Vilsek, Iowa is actually in play, which I didn't expect. And Missouri will be in play. Trump can win. Trump can win. I don't think he's the idea.”

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4. “I have no expectation because I think we're an uncharted territory. If Hillary Clinton picks Admiral, you could have probably been a keynote.”

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5. “Romney went there on the night before the election. Right. It was like Charlie Brown in the football. Every Republican goes to Pennsylvania.”

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6. “Yes. I call it the voter misery index. And I add up the negatives of the two candidates. I don't think we've ever been remotely close to 115 or 120. And so it will be World War I of political campaigns. And in the end, voter suppression, not technically what people refer to about voter suppression, but voter exhaustion with this campaign may change the outcome. Brexit tells me I don't trust any poll None. Zero.”

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7. “The de escalation of rhetoric, unfortunately, in this campaign, and I said this this morning, I meet the press, the campaign has become disconnected from events in the world and the country. It's about the negative. I'll test my theory off on you just very quickly. All presidents being human are deeply flawed. We learn their flaws. Usually the office shows that this is the first presidential campaign when the flaws of both candidates are well known to the public and being debated, their choice being debated on flaws, not values and policies. It's disconnected. And I don't know how you ever reconnected, and I don't know how those two. Well, these conventions will be interesting.”

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8. “Oh, yeah. Have you told the story on your podcast? I know we're running low on time, but have you told the story on your podcast of the cop that came to tell you about your dad? Yeah.”

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9. “But he said he gets fronted every night. And that's when it didn't happen even three years ago when all kinds of suspects, black, white, red, yellow, green, get in your face as an officer and get in your grill as opposed to compliant respect, which is what we ought to teach our kids about police.”

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10. “She said, What is it? Ask them when they're going to start supporting the police. So I gave Tapper the question. He brought it up in his question, Will. And he explained to me.”

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11. “There are, and I wonder who is actually helping if they've tested that. I asked a Trump campaign operative today if they're testing that because in 68 it meant a racial connotation. This time it means I'm with the police. And that is a very powerful message that a lot of people, I was watching the cops today over at lunch. This place has got a million cops, right? Every policeman in Ohio is here. The state troopers with their smoky-the-bear hats and all the police are all over.”

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12. “You know, they said that about Nixon at 68, and it's probably true, the Southern strategy is probably true, encouraging Wallace Law and Order. I don't believe that's Donald Trump. That would credit him with more of a grand scheme than I think he has. His grand scheme is make America great, which is a... He has a tractor beam for the disappointed in the country. That's what I think. I think people are disappointed from all walks of life. They're disappointed with President Obama or they're disappointed with the Republican Party or they're disappointed with their own lives and they like Donald Trump.”

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13. “And he didn't ignore it. That's why I was not the only one saying that, but I like to think that that uproar changed the direction of the Trump campaign and made a mark with Mr. Manafort with the exit of some campaign staff, the addition of others, that you cannot be cavalier with your language with regards to race in the United States. You can't do it. And that message was, I think, clearly communicated, not just from me, but from hundreds. So they treated that, which was an imprecision in language. disregard for the conventions we've come to talk about race. Not a Mexican judge from Indiana. He's an Indiana judge of Mexican ancestry. I don't think Donald Trump is a racist. I talk to him 15 times. I was on Ford debate. He is indifferent. To the language of race, in a way that communicators can't be”

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14. “Just think of the last 48 hours in your old office. Actually, the last 72, if you go back to Nice and then you go to Turkey and then you end up in Baton Rouge.”

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15. “Yes, they do. And hopefully because I think Donald Trump, I give him a lot of credit for when he becomes interested in something mastering it. That's what developers do. I'm sure you've worked with him in different situations over the years. Developers are project specific. I've represented them for years. They throw themselves into a project. They get it done. They put it away. They move on to the next deal. He will do that. And I have confidence he'll do it well.”

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16. “I know. Mike Pence got elected the head of Republican study group, which is this Orthodox conservatism, and then the chairman of the conference, which means you can get along with moderate Republicans and Senator Leight and conservatives. So he's got people skills and he's got policy chops that don't agree and line up. Free trade. He was an AFTA guy. And Donald Trump is not. So it'll be an unusual ideological. where Biden and Obama disagreed, the president won, right? So the president wins.”

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17. “That's it. I think if Vice President Biden has been to President Obama, so would Vice President Pence be to President Trump, a trusted, quiet connector.”

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18. “It was very trumpy. David, you're the expert. I'm not. Isn't he? The rules don't matter. Tom Brokow said this on Meet the Press. Gentlemen, we are still using the old rule book. When are we going to learn? It doesn't matter if he doesn't talk about Mike Pence. Well, the only issue.”

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19. “Rob Portman needs help. Pat Toomey needs help. Kelly Eyot needs help. Joe Heck could win in Nevada. We got to keep the Congress. Mike Pence is going to be out there raising money for Republican seats and telling regular Republicans, conservatives from the old Reagan coalition, stick with our party. We're still conservative. Donald Trump may be different, but as Mitch McConnell told me on that, he can't change the party. He can change the presidency. He can't change the party. And I think that's important for Pennsylvania. Did you watch?”

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20. “Dan Sullivan, I thought, was a good choice who showed up briefly in some of them because, again, he fought the war. If you prosecuted terror or fought terrorists, you were on my short list.”

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21. “I don't know, Raqqa is an address The United States Marines and the United States Army working with the Jordanians and the Saudis ought to have been in Raqqa a long time ago. And I would not, we'll never agree on this. The red line decision was a terrible decision. It telegraphed to Assad that he was staying. That meant that the Civil War was never going to end and that meant we would never go against Raqqa. I expect the next president has to remove Raqqa because it has an address. They have to go to Libya as well. And they are going to Mosul. That's good.”

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22. “One of the things Secretary Clinton said in this campaign that I agree with is after Denise, she said we need an intelligence surge. I think she means by that a vastly expanded CIA human intelligence operation, a vastly expanded cooperation with DGI, the French MI6, and all of this that we actually become a much more cooperative set of agencies. A new book by Daniel Silva, The Black Widow is a novel. One of my favorite novelists, but it talks about the realities of intelligence. That's one thing you would do.”

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23. “That will go to who does he bring in for his national security team? Now, I think John Bolton has, for example, one of the most comprehensive understandings of the world, and it's very Reaganesque. It's not neocon. It's very Reagan-esque. I think Bolton would have a serious role there. I think John Kyle, who you had to have dealt with, would be a very steady hand at the Department of Defense. There are people like Tom Cotton, who's actually fought in the war, who would be advising him on this. So I think the appropriate use of American force, the what after question, If you have enough of a timeline and you go to the American people and you persuade them again and again and again that the alternative, we saw the alternative in Nice, we saw the alternative in Orlando. It's an alternative question. There are no easy solutions.”

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24. “He withdrew from Lebanon after the attack. He also armed the Afghan Mujahideen. So he was aggressive, but he wasn't preemptive. He was aggressive, but Grenada was sort of preemptive. So I think Donald Trump understands himself as a Reagan, a foreign policy conservative. Maybe Cap Weinberger would be the best analog. Cap Weinberger never used force unless you go in over it. The Powell doctrine, overwhelming force, win quickly, get the hell out.”

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25. “Great white fleet. He's going to build a lot of boats, gonna hire up a lot of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines, gonna put the Ohio-class submarine in the water, gonna spend big deficits. His stimulus is going to be a defense package, and then he hopes not to use it. So it's going to be a, I don't think he correctly characterizes President Reagan's foreign policy because President Reagan intervened in Grenada. He bombed Gaddafi, George Herbert Walker-Bush did Panama.”

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26. “The Sunni Shia conflict is by far the most complicated tribal conflict on the planet. And Stephen Pressfield is one of my favorite authors. It's all about the tribes. And Alexander the Great failed in Afghanistan. And the British failed in Afghanistan, and America hadn't failed there yet, but it's a difficult situation.”

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27. “I don't want to overstate my experiences. I've never been in the Oval Office when a serious decision was made. I did spend a lot of time with a former president, which is a different. If they have perfect hindsight, right, when they're out of office, everybody knows what they should have done and shouldn't have done. But I will say that Nixon talked a lot about the South Korean peninsula as being an example of how America exerts force abroad. The rebuilding of Japan, we're still in Okinawa, South Korea. It's been 1950, so 66 years since the truth, 65 years since the truce, it's a long time.”

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28. “The other time we went to the Oval with Waffen Again talkers, this was an August one of 2007. We relate getting in because he was on a teleconference with Maliki. And he got off the conference. I can't quote the president again directly, but something to the order of a senior government official said, they don't learn quickly over there how to run parliamentary democracies.”

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29. “Jeffrey Goldberg piece in The Atlantic I thought was a very in-depth look inside of the decision matrix of a president in this particular world. I think I discussed with you on the air the worst decision of the Obama presidency will be the failure to extend the status of forces agreement in 2011 because we lost the peace. We can debate that forever, but that's my worldview. But there are reasons not to have extended it, which have some beyond the control of the United States of America.”

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30. “But no one spends enough time on that. And I don't know if it's your experience that it's the hardest thing to do. And I told Donald when he was last on, Donald Trump was on. I said, you're campaigning against President Obama ought to be six words. Lead from behind, red line, JVs. That's the six word summary of the presidency. Those are all three national security issues now.”

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31. “You would be the only guy in the NEPA room. I think he'd be the only guy in the Nashville. He did more environmental law than any other president, including Roosevelt”

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32. “I wish everyone was more interested in national security than they are. That probably reflects my beginning with Nixon. That's all he thought about. It's all cared about. He actually signed the Endangered Species Act. He's a terrible law. And I asked him once, why did you sign it? He said, well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. I wouldn't pay attention to that stuff. You know, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act, he didn't care a lick about domestic policy. He was about China and Russia and MERVs. And so that's what, by the way,”

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33. “That he admitted to. He didn't know the difference That's pretty basic, especially the Israelis kind of noticed. That's Iran, Nor”

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34. “I think he did. I give him that one because that happens in radio to me so often unless you're looking at someone you can often miss here. He didn't know the triad on the radio and he didn't know the triad when I asked him in the debate. So that one I don't give him. But Kudz Kurds is something you can go with.”

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35. “I spent four months in Colorado at Colorado Christian University teaching last year for my old friend Bill Armstrong who passed away last week. Great American, great senator. And he was running CCU for a few years and he asked me to come, and I taught. And so I saw Colorado up close. I would tell him, go to Colorado, go down to the 16th Street Mall, see how many teenagers, 7,000 teenagers who are in that city who are homeless. And they go there for the dope. And they do petty crime for the dope, and dope is easily available everywhere. It is not an answer. It is a volcano of addiction.”

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36. “Communities in Ohio, Rob Portman is a friend and a great senator. I think one of the best men in the Senate. Sponsored a comprehensive addiction recovery act recently, and he told me there are more deaths as a result of drugs in Ohio than car accidents now, which is overdoses. Yeah. Just kind of a stunning thing that one would assemble with the French connection in the 70s kind of thing.”

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37. “Dill Wilbur, who's the LA Times Justice Department reporter, just wrote a book called A Good Month for Murder, he embedded with the Prince George's County Homicide Squad for two years. And in the month of february 2015 there were 21 murders in Prince George's County. I think 19 of them connected to the importation of drugs from Mexico and abroad, that high ball and heroin stuff that's the new. New killer. And the epidemic of violence among the drug related community is wildly beyond the imagination, as Leon Wolf at Red State, a conservative writer admitted. Anglo middle class, upper middle class, and upper class America has absolutely no idea what living in the high crime areas of the United States.”

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38. “Judging the officer. I don't know what happened, but it's inexplicable to me. And that's a smaller department. But the answer is Chief Brown. It was an amazing”

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39. “Then Governor Clinton flew to Los Angeles in the aftermath of the riots and I began my television career in the middle of those riots. And President George Herbert Walker-Bush did not get there in time. And that was a defining moment in the campaign, I thought. The president looked a little out of touch with what was an important issue. But what LA went through was they replaced Daryl Gates with Willie Williams and they replaced Willie Williams with Bernie Parks. And I knew him both because I was doing nightly television. Then those two gave way to Bratton and then Bratton gave way to Beck. And each iteration has been more transparent and more collegial and the department has become over time more reflective of Los Angeles. And it's a great police department now. People have a lot more confidence in LA cops than they did when I started in LA in 1989 about being fair and equitable towards all members of the community. That needs to happen in every major police, but I don't know how you get it down to the local level. The Minnesota shooting, which was FaceTimed, is inexplicable to me. We don't know what happened.”

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40. “That's what I wrote a column for the Washington Examiner last week that said reversing the spiral. How do you reverse the spiral? LA went through this in 1992. And in fact, in 1992, there's a similarity.”

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41. “Television doesn't give me enough time. This is the problem. Even if you do 60 minutes, it's 20 minutes. And they edit it down, and that you have to let the president talk a while”

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42. “I hope he starts to engage on the issue of race with right-wing conservative talkers like me, because that's the conversation that has to happen. He needs to go and talk to a lot of people about Chicago, his experience. Joy Reed and I have become. Goofball friends, and we just have completely different experiences, which share in common only at Harvard undergraduate four years, but we can talk to each other. And left and right talking about races, the hardest thing to do.”

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43. “See, I always understood Russia's saying, and it's probably because I come from his side of the ideological spectrum, I don't want him to be able to pass Obamacare. I don't want him to be able to pass the Dodd-Frank. I don't want him to be able to pass the stimulus because I didn't want him to pass any of those things either. So to that extent, I wanted him to be, I pray for the president every day. I'm a Christian, and I don't want him to be in any way assaulted or demeaned. But I don't want him to pass any more laws. And I don't want him to get a Supreme Court justice.”

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44. “They do. I mean, you can sell anything that's left and right. I mean, there are people who are not, the amplification of the extremes in the country is not good. Social media has engineered it. Talk radio began it, but social media has taken it to a new pitch. And we're living, we talked before this began in perilous times because of the amplification of extremes. And it gets people. I don't want to buy into what President Clinton said about Rush after Oklahoma City. I never believed there was a cause and effect there. But I do believe that generally the fringes of the internet are driving the conversation to extreme levels.”

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45. “And so there's a spectrum of talent out there on the radio which is diverse as television with one exception. It's a more difficult medium for women because of the pitch of voice. It's a purely pitch of voice thing. It's harder to listen to women in the car for some reason. Laura Ingram's made a career of it, but it's one of the few that have succeeded. And then there are some people who are off the acceptable spectrum for me. I won't mention their names. They just dive into craziness and they are not productive participants in the public discussion.”

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46. “They're all different. They all have different styles. Russia's the maker of the feast. And I always remind people he's the anchor store of the mall that is talk radio. He's the Nordstrom. And so if I'm the sports chalet in that mall, I'm very happy and grateful to Rush for inventing what was not known prior to 1989, a national talk show. It just didn't exist. Everything was local, governed by the fairness doctrine in followed Michael Medved, my colleague at Salem, Dennis Prager. They run cerebral shows that are give and take in pretty high elevated. Along comes Mark Lehman, my buddy from DOJ days, and Mark's a constitutional genius. He's also sparkier than I am. He likes to mix it up a lot more. And I don't think I'm that interesting. So I like guests. Some people are better monologists. And I can be interviewed, but I like to interview people and I can talk to you for 20 hours if we had the time. I talked to you for 20 hours. You know Greenroom. It's just green room. My radio show is a green room on the air. Yeah.”

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47. “It's like a television network where different anchors have different styles and different shows. O'Reilly has different Hannity, who is different from, let's say Brian Williams, who is different from Lester Holt, who is different from...”

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48. “You came on my show in February of 2015, and we spent two hours talking about believer. We did not mention the name Trump. I reread the transcript. Not one word about Trump.”

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49. “And I can talk. Do you want a weekend show? I said, sure, that beats working. And then the PBS affiliate heard me on the radio and they called me. I said, do you want to do a television show at night for PBS in LA? And I said, that beats working. I said, yes. And then Salem called me up and offered me the nationally syndicated show in 2000 on the basis of the PBS show. And then CNN and Salem did the deal on the basis of the presidential debates. And I knew television, so I was the natural candidate among the Salem people to ask the question. And now I'm with NBC because of that experience. So it's an accidental career and very, very blessed.”

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50. “KFI Radio called me up and said, Do you want to do a weekend talk show when I was in LA? Because I was running the Nixon Library getting it built. And someone will go run President Obama's library construction. Someone will be on site. That was me for Nixon”

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